Cancer is part of your story. Not the whole story.
Cancer can interrupt school, friendships, plans, and the everyday things that make you feel like yourself. Level Up Against Cancer helps teens and young adults stay connected to those parts of life through academic support, peer connection, activities, and help returning to school or college.
Whether you need help keeping up, people who understand, or something to look forward to, we’ll help you find a place to begin. Your interests and goals still matter. So does the future you’re building.
14-24
Every program is built around this age range, not younger kids’ hospital activities.
Cancer affects more than health.
Why Level Up
Treatment can interrupt your classes, friendships, activities, independence and the ordinary moments that make life feel like yours. Level Up supports the life around your medical care with safe peer community, academic help, practical connection tools and experiences worth looking forward to.
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Peer group and moderated gaming nights
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Tutoring, study suport and school/college re-entry resources
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Creative classes, hobbies, speakers and shared experiences
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Connection technology and age-appropriate welcome items
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Survivorship, college and future-planning support
Wherever you are, start at your level.
Find Your Level
There's no right way to experience cancer, return to school or enter survivorship. Choose what's closest to where you are today — you can change or join more than one.
START HERE
I’m newly diagnosed
Start with what you need right now. Learn how connection works and choose support at your pace.
COMMUNITY
I want peer Connection
Join moderated gaming nights, interest groups, classes and community experiences.
ACADEMICS
I need school support
Connect with tutoring, planning, and resources for returning to school or college
NEXT CHAPTER
I’m in survivorship
Navigate re-entry, changing friendships, school- transition, and the next chapter.
GET INVOLVED
I want to help
Tutor, donate hobby items, teach a class, sponsor a year or bring Level Up to a school
What We Are Building
Two ideas hold up everything Level Up does.
MISSION
Level Up Against Cancer connects young people ages 14 through college with academic support, safe peer community, practical resources, meaningful experiences and pathways back to school and everyday life during treatment and survivorship.
VISION
A world where cancer never forces a young person to give up belonging, education, identity or the future they were building.
Make a full Year of Community possible.
A $1,500 annual sponsorship helps provide the tools and experiences that make connection possible — from a headset and welcome kit to tutoring and year-round peer community. Sponsorships are pooled so support reaches every participant equitably and privately.
$1,500
Funds one full year of community, tools and support for one teen
Our Story
“Treatment addressed the cancer. We wanted to build something that also protected the student, the friend, the identity and the future around it.”
Lauren Ibrahim, Co-Founder
Cancer is part of your story.
Not the whole story.
Whether you're looking for support or ready to help someone else find it, there's a place for you here.